[captain-price-returns]

[streetkit]

it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"

no more being polite about it fuck the USA

[willowreader]

https://www.healthcentral.com/news/type-1-diabetes/how-covid-might-trigger-t1d

Five years later, no matter how much researchers have learned since the original COVID-19 virus hit the U.S. in early 2020, there are still unknowns about the virus and its effects on the immune system. One puzzling connection is popping up between COVID and autoimmune conditions, including type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to new research from the University of Utah published in the journal ImmunoInformatics.

To read more click on the article.

[redstonedust]

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[covid-safer-hotties]

'A national scandal': US excess deaths rose even after pandemic, far outpacing peer countries

Also preserved in our archive

"700,000 excess deaths in 2023..." Gee! It's almost like that pandemic *isn't* over!

Add the excess death on top of this, and you get the true scale of the continuing pandemic. Until the covid is brought under control, almost every excess death will be induced by covid, be it through immune damage, carcinogenesis, lack of proper healthcare due to understaffing, new chronic conditions, and even more reasons.

[accessible-tumbling]

[image description: a graph with a straight red line overlaid in blue. It shows the total deaths per 100K (crude) and the cumulative deaths from Covid. It has a spot marked, “Biden says pandemic is over”; but the graph keeps going up dramatically after that point. End ID]

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[elumish]

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

[sandumilfshous]

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

[power-handmaiden]

when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[mazeeque]

eepy duke and damian ft alfred for @spinninggaround via @dcforgaza

[mistressaccost]

you can have random one sided beef with ANYONE! it’s so beautiful. and it doesn’t cost any money!!!!!!

[mysharona1987]

[maester-of-spreadsheets]

I keep laughing at this screencap I took of a comment in the world cup subreddit btw

[lupismaris]

Do it scared but please don't do it hungry. Please don't do it dehydrated. It's gonna make it so much scarier. Please.

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours